Line #129 DarthWiki/Tisasura


1	Imagine ''Manga/LuckyStar'' with the girls made into perverts, the {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s replaced with heated political debates, and ComedicSociopathy.
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3	''Tisasura!'' is a 12-episode slapstick slice of life series created by Tropers/MikuruFan. [[ShrinkingViolet Tina Sutton]], [[DeadpanSnarker Sandra Pennington]], [[GenreSavvy Susan Jackson]], and [[{{Tomboy}} Rachel Yoon]] are four girls who attend Granville High School. They encounter unusual situations among themselves, its students, or elsewhere. Has elements of SketchComedy.
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5	The main purpose is to make fun of {{moe}} culture and shows by subverting every expectation moe characters should have.
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7	A second season, ''Tisasura!![[subscript:2]]'', is in consideration.
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10	!! This work provides examples of:
11	* AllCGICartoon: Parodied mercilessly in "Tisasura CG", which is "animated with love and outsourced Chinese labor."
12	%%* AmusingInjuries
13	* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Discussed several times throughout the show.
14	%%* AnimatedActors
15	* {{Animesque}}: The initial scene, which was made to resemble moe and {{iyashikei}} anime.
16	%%* ArtShift
17	* ArtStyleDissonance: The colorful art style was chosen to deliberately contrast the dark humor of the show.
18	* AsianAndNerdy: Rachel downplays this trope. She has a considerable knowledge in niche subjects, such as the history and type of military aircraft, while doing poorly in school.
19	* AuthorAvatar: Changes in every episode. Part of the opening is trying to find out the AuthorAvatar. One episode has a fish as the Author Avatar.
20	* BeachEpisode: One in Season 1 and one in Season 2. The first beach episode is "Sad", the second beach episode is "Where".
21	* BerserkButton
22	** Commenting on Sandra's [[ACupAngst flat chest]].
23	** People asking Rachel if she's any nationality other than Korean [[InterchangeableAsianCultures or being stereotyped as one of them]].
24	* BigBeautifulWoman: Susan's noticeably chubbier than the rest of the cast, but she's not that big.
25	* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Susan read a story where a character had a [[ExaggeratedTrope 20-inch long]] one.[[note]]FridgeLogic: the show takes place in Canada[[/note]]
26	--> '''Sandra:''' 20 inches?
27	--> '''Susan:''' Yeah. Actually, I think it was meters.
28	--> '''Sandra:''' That's even longer!
29	%%* BlackComedy
30	* BlackComedyRape: Used ironically. Rachel tries to rape Travis in "Unfunny". The point is that the scene is ''not funny''.
31	* BuffySpeak: Everyone at Boyle High School talks like this.
32	--> '''Marta [[TheUnpronounceable Kguillcihh]]:''' [[LampshadeHanging Hey, it's that thing where we describe things as things!]]
33	%%* ButtMonkey: Sandra.
34	* ClusterBleepBomb: Rachel writes a rap song.
35	-->Why don't you go [''bleep''] with your [''bleep'']
36	-->And [''bleep''] too so [''bleep''] don't do well
37	-->[''bleep''] [''bleep''] don't do no [''bleep''] to the [''bleep'']
38	-->Good night, and [''bleep''] [''bleep'']!
39	%%* ConversationalTroping
40	* CovertPervert: All four main characters are like this, arguably being the premise of the show.
41	* CramSchool: Deconstructed. After all the students are forced to attend one due to budget cuts, students actually get poorer grades due to lack of sleep or recreation. They also don't learn anything new.
42	%%* CringeComedy
43	%%* DancingTheme: More specifically, a very cheerful Marching Theme.
44	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Sandra.
45	* TheDitz: Susan might be this, DependingOnTheWriter.
46	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Downplayed in "Unfunny". While Rachel's rape attempt on Travis was played for laughs, she does end up in prison for it.
47	* DudeNotFunny: {{Invoked\|Trope}} in the Season 1 finale, "Unfunny".
48	%%* DysfunctionJunction
49	* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Parodied in "Out of Our Elements", where people with ElementalPowers try to top each other, coing full-circle with the toppings going even more intense each cycle, wrecking the world in the process.
50	%%* FailureIsTheOnlyOption
51	* FourthWallMailSlot: The sketches at the beginning and end, though [[SubvertedTrope the questions never get answered]].
52	%%* GagSeries
53	* GenreSavvy: Susan, who reads a lot of stories, sometimes bordering on WrongGenreSavvy.
54	* GreenAesop: "Sad", the first BeachEpisode. Parodied by executing the Aesop by showing that the beach itself is sad.
55	%%* GrossoutShow
56	* HypocriticalHumor: Conversed and meta-example. The AuthorAvatar says that having someone say something and then immediately opposing it is one of the easiest types of comedy, and therefore, one of the lowest. I then tell TV writers to stop using this trope. As hypocritical humor is one of the things I do a lot, this is an example of hypocritical humor as well.
57	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Episodes are named in groups that relate to each other. For example, episodes 5, 6, and 7 are titled "Blind", "Deaf," and "Mute".
58	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: All four main characters are female and there's approximately a male to female ratio of 1:5.
59	** This becomes subverted as the show goes on with more new male characters being introduced.
60	* InformedDeformity: Sandra really isn't flat-chested. Lampshaded.
61	* InsaneTrollLogic: How Susan came to the conclusion that [[EverythingTryingToKillYou nature is out to get them]].
62	** Apparently, giving someone flowers is a proposal to get someone to have sex with them because flowers are sex organs. The girls try this and it doesn't work.
63	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Rachel is commonly assumed to be Chinese.
64	* {{Iyashikei}}: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Started as one in planning, but has eventually become a subversion.]] The beginning of the first episode is pretty typical of an iyashikei show. Then [[ButtMonkey Sandra]] [[ATwinkleInTheSky gets thrown into the sky]]...
65	* LiteralMinded: Tina.
66	--> '''Susan:''' Look up.
67	--> [''Tina looks up.'']
68	--> '''Susan:''' No, I mean, look it up!
69	* MadnessMantra: Mrs. Munson sings a short song while suffering a breakdown.
70	-->''Good good night, my little sweetie pie''
71	-->''Won't ever know when you'll tell me goodbye''
72	* MindScrew: "What". That's the episode title.
73	* {{Mukokuseki}}: Downplayed. Rachel's character design is almost identical to the other characters while her colors are more typical of Asians.
74	%%* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Parodied.
75	* NarrativeFiligree: Stories are made out of things like trips to the post office, making a paper crane, and conversations at a park.
76	%%* NationsAsPeople: Reconstructed on "Aninations".
77	* NewSeasonNewName: ''Tisasura!![[subscript:2]]''
78	* NoFlowInCGI: Tisasura CG, to the point where Tina's arm remains stiff while she throws a ball.
79	%%* NoGuyWantsToBeChased
80	* NostalgiaFilter: A variant occurs InUniverse when Susan finds a video take of her favorite show when she was a kid. She starts watching it again, only to ask, "Someone tell me what I even liked about this show."
81	* OnlySixFaces: Exploited. Sandra uses this to try to pass off as Tina.
82	* OverlyLongGag: The conversations can reach this level.
83	%%* RandomEventsPlot
84	%%* RapidFireComedy
85	* {{Retraux}}: One sketch is made to appear as a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age]] cartoon.
86	%%* RuleOfFunny
87	* RuleSixtyThree: Episode 8 has Susan writing one for this show.
88	%%* SadistShow
89	* SceneryPorn: The first BeachEpisode seems to focus more on the beach than the girls.
90	* SeinfeldianConversation
91	** Parodied by making the subject matter of the conversations outright [[{{Squick}} disgusting]].
92	** Also parodied by having the girls have minor political debates.
93	** Played straight sometimes.
94	%%* SexComedy
95	* SexyDiscretionShot: While this show is a sex comedy, there's little fanservice and no sex scenes at all.
96	%%* ShrinkingViolet: Tina.
97	%%* SilenceIsGolden: "Mute".
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99	* SkewedPriorities: There's one woman who was oddly attached to inanimate objects. In one incident, when her house caught fire, she grabbed boxes of napkins and tissues before escaping [[BlackComedy while leaving her baby inside]].
100	* SliceOfLife: Subverted along with {{Iyashikei}} in the first episode.
101	* SmallReferencePools: Averted. Misreading the name of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmaray rail project in Turkey]] is one of the show's many references to obscure subjects.
102	* StrictlyFormula: Each segment is about 4 minutes long, except for the credits.
103	** AuthorAvatar and AnimatedActors [[FourthWallMailSlot try to answer questions]], but do not do so.
104	** The girls talk about [[ConversationalTroping tropes]] and such.
105	** First sketch
106	** Commercial break
107	** The girls plan a way to get boys' attention.
108	** Second sketch
109	** The girls put their plan into motion. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption They fail]].
110	** Credits, the AuthorAvatar and AnimatedActors tell a few last jokes.
111	* StylisticSuck
112	** The art on some of the sketches.
113	** All of Tisasura CG, having NoFlowInCGI and {{invok\|edTrope}}ing UncannyValley.
114	* SubvertedKidsShow
115	* TakeThatAudience: Tina tells Susan that she thinks grown men are watching her. Susan points out a studio audience consisting of adult men watching them. Tina faints, while Susan wonders [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight why she didn't notice it earlier]].
116	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Parodied in the {{Retraux}} sketch, titled "Tisasura, Now in Amazing Video".
117	* ThickLineAnimation
118	* TokenMinority: Rachel is the only non-white main character. However, many background and side characters are non-white as well.
119	* TwelveEpisodeAnime: Intended to be the Western counterpart of this trope.
120	* UnmovingPlaid: A stylistic choice. Texturing is represented by unmoving patterns on the area.
121	* TheUnpronounceable: The names of most people outside Granville High School are like this [[RuleOfFunny with no explanation]]. Steven Slltllhnrggl has no vowels in his last name!
122	* VulgarHumor: The first season finale tops every last act of perversion seen in the show. [[BlackComedyRape Female-on-male rape attempts]], {{death\|AsComedy}}, and [[SelfHarm cutting]] PlayedForLaughs aplenty. Even worse, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking they added lots and lots of bad puns]].
123	* [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Where the Hell Is Caribou Park?]]
124	* WordPureeTitle: The title is made up of the first two letters of each of the four main characters.
125	* WordSaladTitle: Some of the sketches. For example, "Nonsense Happy Lucifer Party", which parodies strange MagicalGirl shows.

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